That your children have done that you have never done.

My War Hero Son has.

1. Been to several foreign countries
2. Has parachuted out of an airplane
3. Driven a military tank
4. Saved someone's life

What have your children done that you haven't done?

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For the unSaved, this world is the best it will ever get.

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I'm afraid I would have to turn that one around. I've done some of those things and my children haven't.

Thanks to your son for his service!

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2001 SLK 320 six speed manual
2014 Porsche Cayenne six speed manual

Annoy a Liberal, Read the Constitution

1) Had a lap dance from a one-armed stripper in Tijuana.

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1961 220b: first project car - sold.
2000 CLK 430: first modern Benz - sold.
2001 CLK 55: OMG the torque!!! - sold
1972 280SE 4.5: Baby Gustav
1991 300TE 4Matic: Gretel the Snow Bunny - sold
1978 300SD: Katz the Free Man - given away
1980 Redhead: Darling Wife

Played guitar on stage without being boo-ed

Well since we had four daughters and no sons I am not going there.

Thing One:

• Get chased by brown bear at Cold Bay, Alsaka (thanks, I'll pass on that one).
• Live one summer in a tent on an island in the Skagway river.
• Drive tugboats for fun and profit

Thing Two:

• Play twice in the NCAA DivIII final four women's volleyball.
• Perform spinal surgery training procedures on cadavers.
• Run a marathon

Stuff I've done that Dad didn't ever get to do:

• Spend a watch at the wheel of USCGC Tackle, breaking ice in the Penobscot river.
• Visit Paris, Carcassone, Amsterdam, Cape Town, Beijing, Xian, Chongqing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Melbourne, Christchurch, Auckland and Karnack, TX.
• Pull calves.

Stuff my Dad did that his Dad never did:

• Boatswain on a square-rigged sailing vessel.
• Helmsman on a square-rigged sailing vessel.
• Talk a man out of committing suicide.
• Be a good father.

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Never a dull moment at Berry Hill Farm.

Things the previous generation did that I never did:

- Put down a Japanese POW uprising at a US prison camp in Alaska
- Guard the Manhattan Project during a portion of WW II
- Capture escaped German POWs in Chicago
- Improve the process for controlling temperature in development of still color photography ( 1947)
- Teach famous 1950s series Detroit Tigers (Al Kaline and Chrlie Maxwell) to use woodworking tools

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1950 170SD
1951 Citroen 11BN
1953 Citroen 11BNF limo
1953 220a project
1959 180D
1960 190D
1960 Borgward Isabella TS 2dr
1983 240D daily driver
1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6

Since my kids are only 5-14, they haven't had much of a chance yet. But my oldest son (then 13) got to take the SATS last year and my daughter is taking them this year at 12.

I took them my junior year of HS and got a 1200, which was good enough for UConn at the time so I didn't bother taking them again my senior year. My son beat me (even if you only count the math and verbal) and I'm sure my daughter will, too.

They've gotten to root for the World Series Champion Boston Red Sox, Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots, NCAA Basketball Champion UConn Huskies (Men's and Women's) and NHL Champion Boston Bruins as a kid. They either sucked or were so-so when I rooted for them when I was their age. The Celtics were better back then, though.

One thing that we both got to do was learn how to drive a car and operate a backhoe at 13yo at our place in Maine with my father as instructor.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

...not been born.

That kind of subsumes the rest.